- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: How do publication ethics practices for journals apply to book publishing?
…types of issues facing different publication formats. The proportion of queries or complaints differ, in terms of discipline, between books and journals. In books the highest proportion are in the applied sciences followed by humanities, medicine and life sciences, whereas for journals it is predominantly medicine and life sciences. Authorship, data (errors and fabrication), and plagiarism are the… - Forum discussion topics
Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research
…href="https://publicationethics.org/news/authorship-and-politics">Authorship and politics COPE position statement A frank discussion on handling difficult cases PLOS blog February 2022 A draft COPE discussion document Introduction In 2013, the Chair of COPE, Virginia Barbour, wrote… - CaseCase Closed
Should stockholders of a pharmaceutical industry declare conflicts of interest in a research paper?
…journal B including the name of generic medicine A as the sole treatment without mentioning any conflict of interest. The government committee on ethics in biomedical research is directed by author A. The American College of Physicians has updated its approach for declaring conflicts of interest in clinical guidelines and in some cases it proposes exclusion of authors from authorship or voting in… - Forum discussion topics
Coordinating multi-journal complaints
June 2021 When and how to involve multiple journals and publishers in dealing with complaints from whistleblowers Complaints received from whistleblowers can develop into large investigations with multiple journals, editors, and publishers involved. Such complaints may involve many articles from a single author group or multiple author… - CaseCase Closed
Reviewer requests to be added as an author after publication
…review by R1). If it is the normal policy for the journal to have two reviewers and there were three in this case, but only one was compromised, perhaps the paper could stand? The editor would still need to publish a corrigendum explaining the revised authorship but he could justify publication based on the other reviews. In a similar vein, a suggestion was for the editor to consider post-publication… - CaseCase Closed
Withdrawal of acceptance based on potentially unconsented data
Two papers were retracted (without dispute from the authors) after a lengthy investigation. It was discovered that some of the data used in these articles were gathered without participant consent for the study or for publication (no participants are identifiable). The investigation was conducted by a public body in the country of the authors, and the journal has been told that they will not be… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…different stakeholders in handling the ethical responsibilities associated with publishing research data”. She detailed the set of recommendations from the working group, across four broad categories; Authorship, Legal and regulatory restrictions, Rigor and Risk. Ethical practice… - Case
Plagiarism, double submission and reviewer ethicality
…stated above. One of the complaints was submitted in the form of a paper for publication; at present, this has not been sent out for review but is simply being treated as additional evidence/confirmation of plagiarism. (We have recently discovered that this paper has been posted on a web site devoted to plagiarism discussions.) Other points: The co-authorship has changed… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…publishing ethics, such as authorship disputes, data sharing issues, plagiarism, image manipulation among many others. Sabina also provides example of the practical obstacles and issues journals contend with in trying to resolve ethics cases, where responsibilities lie ion making decisions, thresholds of evidence requirements, mutual support for decisions and actions, and the ambiguity of… - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
…all)? Should these issues be considered manifestations of existing publication ethics frameworks and treated as such? For example, a co-author seeking removal from an article would be treated as an authorship dispute and handled accordingly. A reviewer refusing to review would be deemed to have a COI/should decline the review given an objective review is unlikely? Is it relevant whether… - Forum discussion topics
What does peer review mean in the arts, humanities and social sciences?
…include adding non-native speakers to editorial boards to advise from a high level perspective in an important way; editors entering retirement offering mentorship outside the publication process; for society journals, pairing society members internationally with published mentors and see if they can meet the authorship criteria Post your comments and feedback below.